Word: transcendentalize
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"The Man in the Water" and the story of Convict-Celebrity Jack Henry Abbott portray the astonishing range of human character under stress. The man in the Potomac responded to unyielding nature with transcendent heroism. Abbott is accused of reacting to an indifferent society with random viciousness.
When one looks beyond the style of the delivery and sees the message itself, it is not less, but more outrageous. What are to us abstract ideas, things for conversation, are the absolute truths in Napoleon. First, it is a panegyric to the transcendent man, he who honestly commands fate...
Allies and true friends have disputes. They seek ways to resolve divergent policies. But they do not debate "the fundamental nature of their relationship," for that is not at issue. TIME does grave injury to a strong and solid alliance by its clarion call for such a debate between the...
When questioned in the House on the sale of range-extending equipment to Saudi Arabia for its American-made F-15 fighter jets, Haig also raised the idea of a Middle Eastern confederacy based on transcendent anti-Soviet interests. Said he: "It is fundamentally important to begin to develop a...
So into the sick bay of the short story wanders 34-year-old Mark Helprin with his second collection of short fictions. "Ellis Island" and Other Stories. And though we might hope him to be the prophet of the short story's Second Coming, a blazing savior curing the lepers...